The above title is the last verse from 1st John. “Little children” is easy — that’s us.

Thank you to Donna Haile for her donation in memories of Dorothy Sue "Susie" Hinsley Brimager and Betsy Stewart Gibson. 1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes.

A big thank you to the Windthorst Volunteer Fire Department for fighting and putting out a fire on our land. We really appreciate the time and commitment these individuals donate our community. We are blessed to live in such a great town.

Dr. Ken Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor.

The Sheriff’s Office received 132 calls for service this week. As this report is being written there were 17 inmates with seven being female in the Archer County.

Paul and Nila Dowlearn-Owners of Wichita Valley Nursery. Paul’s recent books, “The Lazy Man’s Garden” and “Touch the Earth” are available at the Nursery, 5314 S.W. Pkwy, Wichita Fall, Texas.

Thank you to Barbara and Harold Jenkins for their donation to the library. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests.

The discovery of oil transformed communities and entire states in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana saw their economies transform overnight with the discovery of oil.For the Osage of Northeast Oklahoma, they saw their impoverished, dilapidated reservation transformed into one of the richest communities in Oklahoma almost overnight. It attracted great jealousy and then hatred and then murder.In the end, it took one former Texas Ranger, Thomas White, to help solve the case.

After 5 days of good rain chances, 5 days of hit or miss T’storms, we managed 2/10ths at our house, 3/10ths at the nursery. Way less than the 1” to 2” amounts that were predicted by local forecasts. Still, those days were much appreciated. Some of our plants pulled out of wilt but not enough for the deeper rooted trees and woody shrubs. Joe Brown used to say, “Never complain about the rain or a newborn calf.” So I’ll leave it at that.

The Sheriff’s Office received 106 calls for service this week. As this report is being written there were 15 inmates with four being female in the Archer County Jail.